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The House Of Murphy
Murphy's home
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- Nader's Law:
- The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the quality of his service.
- NASA Skylab Rule:
- Don't do it if you can't keep it up.
- NASA Truisms:
- Research is reading two books that have never been read in order to write a third that will never be read.
- A consultant is an ordinary person a long way from home.
- Statistics are a highly logical and precise method for saying a half-truth inaccurately.
- Law of Nations:
- In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
- Navy Law:
- If you can keep your head when all about you others are losing theirs, maybe you just don't understand the situation.
- Evvie Nef's Law:
- There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it.
- Nessen's Law:
- Secret sources are more credible.
- Newman's Law:
- Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse.
- Newton's Little-known Seventh Law:
- A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
- Nick the Greek's Law:
- All things considered, life is 9-to-5 against.
- Nienberg's Law:
- Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
- Nies's Law:
- The effort expended by the bureaucracy in defending any error is in direct proportion to the size of the error.
- Ninety-ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
- The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
- Nixon's Rule:
- If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
- Nobel Effect:
- There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected. Furthermore, any such petition is guaranteed page-one treatment in the New York Times.
- Noble's Law of Political Imagery:
- All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.
- Corollary:
- Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.
- North Carolina Equine Paradox:
- Vyarzerzomanimororsezassezanzerareorses?
- No. 3 Pencil Principle:
- Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.
- Corollary: If no one uses something, it isn't needed.
- Nursing Mother Principle:
- Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.
- Nyquist's Theory of Equilibrium:
- Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor; equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.
Murphy's home
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